Video: Layar: worlds first mobile Augmented Reality browser

26 comments

• By Yuri van Geest on June 16th 2009 at 3:14 pm

  Great app but I wonder how can Layar be the first AR browser while Wikitude was available since 2008? Do I miss something here? Is it definitions?

  Pls explain. Tx.

  Good luck!

  Y

• By raimo on June 16th 2009 at 3:19 pm

  @Yuri,

  We are an enabler.. We enable other contentparties to create AR experiences. Every contentpartner creates there own layer in our application. Every layer is the equivalent of a webpage on the web.. Hence making us a browser..

• By Tim on June 16th 2009 at 3:48 pm

  I just looked in android market, but there is no layar application to be found.
  I am living in the netherlands with a t-mobile G1 phone.

  But it looks nice guys!

• By raimo on June 16th 2009 at 3:53 pm

  @Tim,

  We expect it to be in there tomorrow afternoon..

  Finetuning and tweaking now..

  Raimo

• By Ed on June 16th 2009 at 4:03 pm

  raimo where can I find the specs on how to create a layer?

• By raimo on June 16th 2009 at 4:06 pm

  Mail us for now..

  What kind of layer would you like to create

  raimo [AT] sprxmobile.com

• By ARJWright on June 16th 2009 at 4:45 pm

  Saw this via a friend’s twitter feed; this is pretty cool. Definitely the right kind of context for this type of application.

• By Freek on June 16th 2009 at 5:20 pm

  Very cool stuff! I guess you’ll be developing an iPhone version soon? If not, then I need to get an Android!
  Freek

• By Mike on June 16th 2009 at 7:28 pm

  Congratulations Raimo. This feels like a glance into the near future. Wow!

• By Hrafn Th. Thórisson on June 16th 2009 at 8:46 pm

  An excellent implementation of this concept; superb interface design! I look forward to seeing future developments and wish you the best of luck.

• By Brian on June 16th 2009 at 9:44 pm

  Looks good. You guys hiring in the US?

• By Goodie on June 17th 2009 at 12:10 am

  Well made, but not a chance that you can make this a big app.

  Because of 2 simple reasons…
  a) you have no significant # of users yet
  b) you won’t have users cause you hardly got interesting ‘layers’. I would like ALL cash machines, not just the ones from ING.

  You can bet there will be more similar apps released in the future where you can add your locations for free (like Google Maps).
  Like someone else pointed out…Wikitude proves this point.

  This thing just got a really bad commercial model.

• By Twitter Tweets about Android as of June 16, 2009 | The Lessnau Lounge on June 17th 2009 at 12:12 am

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• By raimo on June 17th 2009 at 12:17 am

  @Goodie

  Actually the ING layer shows ALL ATM’s

  So what kind of layers would you like to see?

• By woodear on June 17th 2009 at 1:19 pm

  I love it!

  1 wish:
  Could you please also add the google translation in the layar? I lost myself in Dutch signage system. I wish this layer could help translate the Dutch word captured by the phone into English words.([image] >OCR> [text] >google translate> [English])

  Many thanks!

• By C. Enrique Ortiz on June 18th 2009 at 6:02 am

  Raimo and team – congrats on this super cool app. You guys are always thinking ahead; this proves it. The potential is endless. The combination of location + context + visuals; very exciting…

  ceo

• By Marque1968 on June 18th 2009 at 10:50 am

  This looks very promissing. I found out about your app on the nu.nl site. I look forward to a Windows Mobile implementation for my Touch Pro.

• By Mobile News & Infos - "Layar": Laut Entwicklern weltweit erster Mobile-AR-Browser (Augmented Reality) on June 18th 2009 at 5:50 pm

  [...] niederländische Unternehmen SPRXmobile hat mit “Layar” den laut Entwicklern weltweit ersten AR-Browser (Augmented Reality) für Smartphones vorgestellt. Die Anwendung überlagert das Blickfeld [...]

• By Ed on June 25th 2009 at 11:35 am

  Who developed the actual program?

• By David Doherty on June 26th 2009 at 1:16 am

  Cool Video… a few tweaks and i think that’d make a great caddy to accompany me on a golf course!

• By marthijn on August 17th 2009 at 8:26 pm

  is there an aplication for windows mobile

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• By alarma on September 30th 2009 at 12:57 pm

  This city, appears, more interesting place, than I could think, – have noticed

• By Chief on January 10th 2010 at 12:19 pm

  Is also downloadable voor wimo 6.5?

• By Chris on January 13th 2010 at 7:49 pm

  would be great if i could use it also with windows mobile on my new htc hd2! PLEASE design a version for the microsoft marketplace.